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Here Comes Everybody: My Grace-Filled Meet-Up with Padre Pio’s Relics – Joanne McPortland, Aleteia

Announcing Our Next Book: The Lord by Romano Guardini – Catholic Exchange

Parents of Transgender Kids have Enrolled Them in a Dangerous Experiment – Michael Cook, Mercatornet

Panis Angelicus – Donald R. McClarey J.D., The American Catholic

Five Ways to Improve Your Prayer Life – Fr. Ed Broom O.M.V., Catholic Exchange

Catholic World Report Releases Redesigned Website – Chloe Langr, epicPew

Another Huge Reason for Summorum Pontificum! – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog

Spiritus, a Young-Adult Missionary Organization – Bishop Robert F. Morneau, OSV Newsweekly

What is the Liturgy of the Hours? – Philip Kosloski, Aleteia

Ordinations in the Ordinariate – Fr. John Hunwicke, Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment

Catholics and the Revolutionary State – James Kalb J.D., Crisis Magazine

Martyrdoms that Could Rival Any Horror Film – Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald

On the Island of Guam, Is the Eighth Commandment Discarded? - Fr. Gordon J. MacRae, These Stone Walls

Leo and Luther—The Real Story of the Pope and the Heretic – Steve Weidenkopf, Catholic Answers Magazine

The True Old West Tale of Adam and Eve’s Conversion – Daniel Demers, Catholic Stand

Archbishop to become Lithuania’s First Beatified Soviet-Era Martyr – Catholic News Service via OSV Newsweekly

Four Years of Grace – Cecily Lowe, Catholic Stand

Quæritur: “Annulments” and Appealing to the Roman Rota – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog

Dialogue with an Atheist on Bible Difficulties and Plausibility Structures – Dave Armstrong, Biblical Evidence for Catholicism

Spokesman for Jesuit Chief Offers Sophisticated Explanation for Devil Remarks – Catholic Herald

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